Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love
Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.
Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
To make something you have to be something.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.
Willing is not enough, we must do.
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
In comradeship is danger countered best.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action.
By seeking and blundering we learn.
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
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